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A Genuine Recording But first, a few words from our sponsor.... Previous episodes of Dark Adventure Radio Theatre have radio newsman Nathan Reed of Worldwide Wireless The Players all been adaptations of a single classic Lovecraft story. News, so we brought him back for this new adventure in Aidan Branney ...... Raleigh Radioman As the series expanded, we knew we wanted to adapt breaking news. We’ve also brought back Miskatonic pro- some of HPL’s shorter works, and yet still provide full fessor Nathaniel Ward, who appeared in “Dreams in the Sean Branney ...... Walter Davis, Raymond Roquelo, Nathaniel Ward feature-length episodes of audio drama. “Dagon” was on Witch House” and “Imprisoned With the Pharaohs,” and Dan Conroy ...... Erskine Blackwell the list of favorite and often-requested stories, but being his old friend Charlie Tower, who appeared alongside Mike Dalager . .Mare Island Dispatch, Alcatraz, Petty Officer Hobbs, German U-boat only five pages long, and having only one character and Ward in the HPLHS motion picture version of The Whis- no real plot, we realized we’d need to rework it substan- perer in Darkness. Lucas Dixon ...... Charlie Tower tially to make it fit the Dark Adventure line. Written in When working on the bonus props for the episode, we Matt Foyer ...... “Dagon” Actor, Dr . Chapman, Robert Olmstead 1917, “Dagon” was one of HPL’s stories which was directly decided a simple newspaper clipping was not enough. So Andrew Leman ...... Nathan Reed, Barnabas Marsh inspired by a dream. It was also one of his first returns to we made an entire newspaper, even though it’s too big to Jacob Andrew Lyle ...... Ensign Isaza writing fiction after a nine-year hiatus. This brief story stuff into a jewel case. foreshadowed the theme of great undersea horrors that Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds wasn’t the first time Barry Lynch ...... Admiral Brookstone, Palos Captain would reappear in his greater works “The Call of a scripted dramatic program was presented as “breaking John A . McKenna ...... Captain Craig and “The Shadow Over ”. news” on the radio. It had been done a number of times Grinnell Morris ...... Radioman 3rd Class Dalager Lovecraft incorporated elements from “Dagon” into before, including a version of Julius Caesar Orson Welles “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” We had already done a himself had produced just the previous month. And real Kevin Stidham . . .Clark Holloway, Portland Dispatch, New Zealand, WWN Assistant Dark Adventure episode of that story, but the tale ends news had been presented on the radio in the form of Josh Thoemke ...... Announcer with many questions unanswered. Old Zadok Allen hints scripted drama: starting in 1931 the show The March of Time Winters ...... David Merlin, Bert Philips that the Deep Ones have a master plan for world domi- Time featured professional actors in highly staged re- nation, and that they are in league with . enactments of actual news stories, complete with sound Additional Voices . Ruth Horne, Logan Loughmiller, Tobias Nilsson, and Tom Woodger also says that the old Kanaky islanders knew of certain effects and music. The show was highly popular and ran symbols that could drive Deep Ones away. The town has for fourteen years on all the major networks. The Staff been raided and no one really knows what has become of Early radio listeners often couldn’t tell that what they the Marsh family and the other members of the Esoteric were listening to wasn’t really “real.” Orson Welles found Inspired by the stories “Dagon”, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, and “The Temple” Order of Dagon. And in the closing lines, the protagonist that out the hard way when his little Halloween episode by H . P . Lovecraft Robert Olmstead declares his intention to bust his cousin turned into a national panic. There was a fair amount of Radio Adaptation by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman out of the insane asylum and join the Deep Ones in Y’ha- public outrage at the Martian invasion incident, and the BONUS BONUS PROP nthlei. We saw an opportunity to pick up where Inns- mischievous Welles was compelled to apologize for the Original Music by Reber Clark mouth left off, incorporate “Dagon”—and maybe even uproar. Dark Adventure Theme and WWN Fanfare by Troy Sterling Nies In addition to the prop documents contained more than that—and create an exciting new adventure We have no fear that audiences in this jaded, post-mod- “Bub-L-Pep” jingle written by Andrew Leman, arranged and performed by in this jewel case, we’ve prepared an ENTIRE unlike anything our audience has ever heard. ern, “reality” entertainment age will be fooled into think- Harald Lindell and Kathleen Demarest To join them together we thought it would be fun to turn ing that Dagon is actually rising up to wipe out humanity. NEWSPAPER as a companion prop to this epi- to a classic of 1930s radio: the Mercury Theater on the Air But we hope a 75-minute visit to our parallel universe Raymond Roquelo & his Orchestra play “Little Dutch Mill” (1934) by Ralph Freed and Harry Barris; sode, which covers all the events of the story production of The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells. This fa- where such horrors are real and viscerally threatening “Midnight, the Stars and You” (1934) by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Harry Woods; “Don’t plus a great deal more . We think you’ll enjoy mous broadcast of October 30, 1938, starring and directed will prove both thrilling and delightful to our listeners. Give Up the Ship” (1935) by Al Dubin and Harry Warren; all tunes arranged by Reber Clark it, and you can find it here: by Orson Welles, was presented — at least in its first act —SB & AHL Audio Engineering by Daniel McMains — as a series of “news bulletins” about a Martian inva- Engineering Assistance by Adam Pardee store .cthulhulives .org/products/dagon-newspaper sion of Earth. This breathless style of presentation was so grippingly effective that it actually caused pandemonium Cover and Disc Illustrations by Darrell Tutchton among latecoming listeners who missed the opening an- Prop Inserts by Andrew Leman and Sean Branney nouncement that it was a work of fiction. ! 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